Originally Posted by
HSLD
The ATI will allow airlines to have owned route authority flown by foreign carriers. If labor is too expensive at American Airlines than BA will fly the AA routes. If AA and BA labor is deemed too expensive than just admit the Bulgarian national airline into the One World alliance and let them fly it.
The ATI has the ability to whipsaw airline labor on a global scale. Should the ATI legislation pass, it won't be a good deal for any US airline employee.
As it relates to regional flying, the ATI will further reduce any opportunity at the "majors" for traditional career progression.
I have wondered about this kind of thing coming to pass. My understanding is that global shipping has gone to contracted cheap international labor. A crew can come from a third world company and man a ship at a third the cost of what a local union crew would cost.
What is to stop a major airline from doing something similar? If ATI comes to pass could we see American Airlines jets being flown by a Pakistani crew? Could we see the day when major airlines set up overseas cadet programs in the third world to train pilots for the american market?
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